Swamp Cooler Pads
What type and brand name for cooler pads are most effective for cooling? You will find differing opinions on this. I have used aspen, blue synthetic and cellulose pads. To be honest I can't much tell any real difference between them. Master Cool single inlet coolers use an 8 or 10 inch thick Celldek pad. Last season they were selling at The big box store thinner retrofit pads for conventional coolers made of the same material. They were reputed to provide 10 % cooler air than regular aspen pads. I bought some and they work fine but I really can't say they made any appreciable difference. I haven't seen these pads this year and don't know if they are still available. I think the aspen wood shaving type work at least as well as any other. The other ones do shed less debris and don't clog your pump and spiders as much though. I guess my opinion on what the best pads for cooling are is new clean ones I wish I knew. I seem to have a short memory but last year I had aspen pads. This year I went with the Dura Cool. It seems to me that it cooled better last year with the aspen. I did a google search and I saw some expert say that you can double pack the aspen pads to increase their water retention ability. Also important is to make sure your pump is delivering enough water to keep the pads saturated. I will be watching this site to see what everyone else is saying. Hi, I went with the green cellulose pads part of last year and all of this year and they seem to work good. I've always used the cellulose pads. They seem to put up with the salt and calcium in our water best. If your inside temp is 15 degrees cooler than your outside temp, your doing awesome. the best, hands down, are the aspen pads. everything else is just junk. i have used them all and always come back to aspen pads. as a rule of thumb, your swamp should be cooling your home 30 degrees below the outside temp on DRY days if your set up is primo. we run ours 24/7 mostly on high, with just a few windows cracked open to controll air flow. I dont think it matters much on the filters. I think it all goes back to how good is the water and how much lime and calcium is in it. As it runs over the filter. I bought the blue ones and they worked ok year 1 - no difference that I could tell between them and aspen. I had hoped to get 2 years out of them (given what I paid). But year 2 and there are blue floaties in the water - probably gumming up the pump worse than aspen shavings would have. I have a bleeder kit installed to try to get rid of the salts ... but the pads are still really stained and are crunchy and now work much worse than aspen. I'm taking off the blue ones and going back to el cheapo aspen.
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